Our plan and objectives

To continue empowering visually impaired adults to enjoy sailing

We have been increasing the number of visually impaired adults and volunteers that have signed up to Visa-gb is allowing us to run more trips and get more visually impaired sailors on the water. Our plans are to continue to do this.

Our objectives are to:

Deliver at least [8] trips a year at the lowest cost to our members
Benefit more visually impaired adults to enjoy sailing
Continue to demonstrate ability over disability
Contribute to improving the health and well-being of our members and help build their confidence and self-belief. Through sailing and other means we will continue to build communities of visually impaired sailors that interact with each other and share life experiences
Continue to engage with more sailing clubs to help make sailing more accessible to visually impaired adults
Increase our engagement and communications with local associations for the visually impaired as well as colleges and those that provide support to visually impaired adults to take part in other sports and activities
Build a strong and financially sustainable organisation that works hard to deliver a range of sponsored sailing opportunities in the UK for those who are new, novices, or who are experienced, and in addition, for those that wish to take part in racing and wish to sail abroad at their own cost without funding from the charity.

To help us deliver these objectives we need your help

You as our members are our focus and we need your help for the organisation to grow and support more visually impaired adults to be empowered to enjoy sailing and the benefits it brings. You can help us by:

Spreading the word about what we do, the benefits of sailing and benefits of being a member of Visa-gb – membership is free
Sharing your experiences with your local visually impaired organisations and, if you have any sailing clubs near you, ask them whether they would like to support us in making sailing more accessible to our members and other visually impaired adults
Help to create communities of visually impaired sailors, through WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media.
Share your personal experiences of your sight loss and how you have adapted to this.
Share any support you have had including the equipment or methods you’ve used to adapt and continue to be able to do what you did before your sight loss.
Become part of the Visa-gb family and help us support more visually impaired adults.
If you are not already a member you can join us by clicking on the link her. https://visa-gb.org.uk/contact/. Membership is free.

If you would like to help us achieve our objective or help us raise funds please contact us at info@visa-gb.org.uk. To donate to Visa-gb and make a difference today, please follow this link: The Visually Impaired Sailing Association – JustGiving. Every penny of your donation will go to help making sailing with us affordable.

We are always looking for new partners to work with us to achieve these goals, so, If you are a sailing club, a charter company or an organisation that supports visually impaired people and would like to work with us to benefit more people from the support you offer and what we offer, please get in touch with us by emailing us on info@visa-gb.org.uk.

Blogging

Sailing trip blogs and reports, every trip will have its very own ‘J K Rowling’ who’ll enthral you with tales of magic and daring do, on the high seas. Ever fancied yourself as an author or publisher? If you have get in touch and maybe we can get you to collate, re-write, edit and publish the best of series!

Advertising and promoting

Advertising and promotion will also help our comms, we have Visa-gb dodgers to go on the boats we sail, and our webshop sells t-shirts and fleeces which are available with the Visa-gb logos for members to wear. All we want you to do is chat to the folk on other boats, in the pub or down the bowling alley. Let’s make it our club and be proud to wear the badge.

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Membership

Membership, become part of the Visa-gb family. It’s free to join! They’ll be members’ benefits, events both on and off the water and most importantly you’ll be doing something with like-minded people and your suggestions are most welcome. For more information please follow the link to the membership page.